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Henry David Thoreau

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They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement indefinitely, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.

Henry David Thoreau, “Slavery in Massachusetts,” July 4, 1854.

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